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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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New quotes to savor

August 27th, 2008

There were some great quotes in the Federalist newsletter (Patriot Post) today.

“The timid, civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the
onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions
and smiles.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good,
you should run for your life.” —Henry David Thoreau

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what
they do not want to hear.” —George Orwell

“It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.” —Herbert Spencer

“A sure sign of …

Dennis Clarke: How Psychiatry is Making Drug Addicts out of America’s School Children

August 10th, 2008

Dennis Clarke, whom I’ve respected for about the last 30 years, has been a very hard-hitting spokesman for Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights. His television appearances are memorable and intensely enjoyable; he has enough facts memorized to go up against any psychiatrist in a debate and expose the pseudo-science and lack of any scientificfoundation of their most cherished and idiotic beliefs about brain chemistry, chemical imbalance, etc. He’s written this linked article about the whole process of the wholesale labeling and drugging of children by psychiatry in the schools.

If you’re in the life of a child who has been falsely …

TeenScreen Lawsuit gets Green Light in Federal Court

August 8th, 2008

Here’s an example of Teen Screen in action. In Indiana, 15-year old Chelsea Rhoades is herded into a room with 10 other kids and put in front of a computer where she has to answer questions yes or no, with no explanations allowed. Asked if she likes to clean, she says “yes”. Asked if she likes to go to parties, she says “no”.

She is then labeled as having “obsessive-compulsive disorder” and “social anxiety disorder”. Now what? They try to require her to take drugs, of course! Psych drugs that cause suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation, among many other side …

CCHR Public Service Announcement

August 5th, 2008

This PSA from Citizens Commission on Human Rights is emotionally powerful and completely truthful.

Click to view Candace PSA, which urges people to find out the facts about suicides and anti-depressants. So far approximately 63,000 people have committed suicide while on anti-depressants. These drugs CAUSE suicidal and homicidal ideation — that’s psych speak for creating urges to kill onesell and others.

Candace was only 12 years old.

The Mother’s Act is Dead!

July 29th, 2008

Occasionally the good guys win big, and that happened yesterday when the US Senate killed S 3297, the Coburn Cloture Bill, which contained the Mother’s Act Bill and 36 unrelated measures. Sixty votes were needed to close debate and bring the bill to a final vote. It received only 52 votes — there were 40 votes against. Considering the volume of faxes, letters and phone calls to the senators coming from people like me who wanted nothing to do with forcing pregnant women to take psychiatric drugs.

This is a BIG win for every mother and mother-to-be in the United …

How to get links to your website - relevant backlinks are best

July 24th, 2008

Visitor J.A. says:

I’m interested in some SEO consulting from you.

My dream words are ‘email lists’

I’m on page 4 now, what will it take — backlinking?

Hi, J.A. -

There are only 37 mentions of your site that Google knows about. That’s a pretty small number.

If you run this search for backlinks on my site www.wordsinarow.com, it will find about 1010 such links. It’s one reason my optin email lists page does so well in a search at Google, where it is has been #1 for about 3 years now in a search for “optin email lists”. Insert your own domain and you’ll …

Oregon receives $3 Million in Bristol-Myers Squibb fraud settlement.

July 20th, 2008

The Oregon State Department of Justice published this press release on July 16. This was a medicaid fraud settlement based on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s antipsychotic drug Abilify being used for kids and the elderly when it wasn’t approved by the FDA for that, yet it was aggressively marketed for those uses, including bribes paid to psychiatrists to get them to prescribe it.

Psychiatry and Big Pharma are deep in each others’ pockets.

When Bristol-Myers Squibb says “Jump!” instead of asking, “How High”?” psychiatrists ask only “How much will you pay me?”

States receive $449 Million from Bristol-Myers Squibb Settlement

July 17th, 2008

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the great State of Georgia is getting about $12.1 Million as its share of the $449 Million settlement from Bristol-Myers Squibb in the federal government’s (and 43 states’) suits against the company for fraudulent marketing and pricing of prescription drugs for Medicaid. Payments went out Tuesday for the settlement, which happened in September.

The allegations were that the companies made false claims about the drugs and their prices, driving up the sales and prices of the drugs. They also paid what amount to kickbacks to doctors (mainly psychiatrists) who prescribed their drugs for uses not approved …

Side Effects of Antidepressant Drugs & Anti-psychotic Drugs

July 1st, 2008

There’s a new blog on the Side Effects of Antidepressant & Anti-psychotic drugs. Big Pharma isn’t going to like this one, as it tells the horror stories of people who have lost relatives through the side effects of the antidepressant and anti-psychotic drugs which have made the drug companies so rich. In particular there’s a story about the side effects of Zyprexa killing one person’s elderly mother that was quite touching.

If you know anyone who is having trouble with side effects of psychiatric drugs, send them to that blog and have them tell their story. It could save someone’s …

PhotoCycle - awesome info for photographers

June 28th, 2008

If you like photography, it’s always good to hear from master photographers about how they get some of their great shots. My old friend Marc Silber has put together a video called PhotoCycle where he speaks with Michael Adams, son of the photography giant Ansel Adams, about some of the techniques and process used by Ansel Adams during his career. Shot against the background of Yosemite, where Ansel Adams lived and photographed many of his most memorable photos, it is a very informative, lively, and instructive video. This is only the first one, and I can hardly wait for the rest of …

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